Rendahl's messmate

Rendahl's messmate
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Ophidiiformes
Family:Carapidae
Genus:Echiodon
Species: E. rendahli
Binomial name
Echiodon rendahli
(Whitley, 1941)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Carapus rendahli Whitley, 1941

Rendahl's messmate, Echiodon rendahli, is a pearlfish of the family Carapidae, found in the southwest Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand at depths to 60 metres (200 ft).[3] Its length is between 10 and 12 centimetres (3.9 and 4.7 in).The larvae has a long filament on its head which bears some resemblance to a siphonophore. These fish live within sponges.[4] The specific name honours the Swedish naturalist and artist Hialmar Rendahl who collected the specimens in the Tasman Sea which were used by Gilbert Percy Whitley to describe this species.[5]

Juvenile Echiodon rendahli
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling

References

  1. ↑ Ayling, Tony; Geoffrey J. Fox (1982). Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand. Auckland: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216987-8.
  2. ↑ Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Echiodon rendahli". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Echiodon rendahli" in FishBase. March 2006 version.
  4. ↑ "Messmate Fish, Echiodon rendahli (Whitley 1941)". Fishes of Australia. Museums Voctoria. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 March 2018). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 8 July 2018.


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